Guess Who

We had a couple of games using the standard questions, such as , “is your person wearing a hat?” and “does your person have facial hair?” but it was a lot more fun to ask personal, probing questions about the people behind the picture cards and to make value judgments about them.

We played a game where Nahum and I (with help from Megan and Burfit) asked more general questions; the result being that we both ended up with the wrong answer. Some of those questions were:

are they an accountant?

might they burn down their office?

do they own a fruit barn?

are they a communist?

could they be a Stepford wife?

would they prefer to be somewhere else right now?

But the next game we played, after about 3 of 4 questions, we had narrowed our choices down to 1 each. And we were both right. I was gobsmacked.

Apparent ‘facts’ about Matt

he was not a dork at school

he has seriously thought about killing someone

he is not from ‘Ethnicia’

(There must have been at least one more than this, but I can’t for the life of me think what it might be * ).

Apparent ‘facts’ about Andy

he’s got lots of children

he’s not much of a disciplinarian

he likes football more than cricket

he is an optimist

What does that say about us, that we made the same assumptions and ended up both guessing correctly?

* Nahum and Megan, if you can remember any other questions we asked, let me know.